Monument record 0950704000 - Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd, Tring Road

Summary

Nineteenth to twentieth century Hazell's recreation ground at Victoria Park

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  • None recorded

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  • RECREATION GROUND (19th Century to Modern - 1800 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Hazell, Watson & Viney Limited; head office, 44 Great Queen Street, London Wc2; letterpress printers, electro & stereo typers & book-binders, Tring Road; book-binding works, Bicester Road; hostel, 129 Tring Road. Hazell's Club, Britannia Street; Hazell's Sports Ground, Eagles Road (B4).
Not shown on First Edition OS map. On 2nd Edition 1900 map shown as 'Victoria Park'. 1919-27 edition, labelled Sports Ground, Victoria Park' as it is until NG 10k Edition 1972-90 when Tennis Courts appear and in the NG 10k Edition Revised, 1983-96, the term 'Sports Ground' is dropped (B7).
Historic photographs owned by Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society and put online by Buckinghamshire County Museum and the Centre for Buckinghamshrie Studies show events at Hazell's Sports Ground from 1895 to 1928 (B8).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC19609 Bibliographic reference: Clive Birch. 1993. The Book of Aylesbury. P87.
  • <2>SBC20240 Bibliographic reference: Martin Andrew. 2000. Francis Frith's Photographic Memories: Around Aylesbury (Francis Frith's Aylesbury). P54 & 55.
  • <3>SBC19615 Bibliographic reference: Hayward Parrott. 1982. Aylesbury Town Yesterdays. p33-4.
  • <4>SBC22265 Bibliographic reference: Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1964. Kelly's Directory of Aylesbury and Neighbourhood. p238.
  • <5>SBC19608 Bibliographic reference: Hugh Hanley & Julian Hunt. 1993. Aylesbury: A Pictorial History. captions to pictures 78, 79 & 80.
  • <6>SBC19614 Bibliographic reference: Elliott Viney & Pamala Nighingale. 1994. Old Aylesbury. p52.
  • <7>SBC22798 Verbal communication: Kim Biddulph (BCC). 2007. Information from historic OS mapping.
  • <8>SBC22799 Digital archive: Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society. Buckinghamshire Historic Photographs. Prefix phAylesbury984, 1140, 1141, 1152, 1191, 1203, 1202.

Location

Grid reference SP 83219 13828 (point)
Civil Parish AYLESBURY, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 27 2021 1:49PM

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